Well it's certainly an area for proper scientific research. Our understanding of inheritance is far better in matters of physical or physiological characteristics than it is with regard to instinct, intelligence or memory, etc. Sadly, there is as yet little or no evidence for genetic memory that would stand up to rigorous scientific scrutiny, scrutiny that's very hard to execute (as with trying to "prove" that there's no God). It remains an area of interest but we're not past the hypothesis stage. Always beware of clinging to cherished notions which force us to stay on a single thought track, like those chaps who lay great store by their experience of "savants..."

Steve (sceptic since 1951)